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Life after Yasser Arafat uncertain For all the questions raised by last weeks death of Yasser Arafat, one thing is certain: The debate over his legacy is likely to be as polarizing | 0 |
IBM expands virtual resources for partners IBM has announced virtual resources to help its business partners accelerate the building and deployment of on-demand business applications tailored to customer requirements across all vertical | 0 |
TimeWarner Settles AOL Fraud for \$210 Mln WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Media giant Time Warner Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TWX.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TWX.N</A> will pay fines of \$210 million under an agreement with the U.S. government to | 0 |
Philippines Rushes Relief to Flooded Areas GENERAL NAKAR, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippine troops rushed food and drinking water by foot and helicopters on Sunday to areas cut off by four storms that | 0 |
Arctic Melt Accelerates, Governments Split A thaw of the Arctic icecap is accelerating because of global warming but nations in the region including the United States are deadlocked about how to stop | 0 |
Season of Hardships Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre has played his last two games with the knowledge that his wife, Deanna, had been diagnosed with breast cancer this month and will | 0 |
Chinese Government Distances Itself from Qians Anti-Bush <b>...</b> China #39;s government is playing down an editorial in an official newspaper that slammed President Bush #39;s foreign policy on the eve of US | 0 |
France refuses Iraqi kidnappers #39; ultimatum The French government today refused to bow to the demands of militants who have kidnapped two French journalists in Iraq, insisting that a law banning Muslim | 0 |
Int #39;l Paper to Sell Woodlands for \$250M PORTLAND, Maine - International Paper Co., the world #39;s largest forest products company, has agreed to sell all of the 1.1 million acres of | 0 |
Signs of Discord as Indo-Pakistan Ministers Meet NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Signs of discord emerged between India and Pakistan as foreign ministers from the nuclear-armed rivals met on Sunday to review and | 0 |
Time to step to the fore The University of Connecticut is still not sure what life will be like without Diana Taurasi, the two-time national player of the year who led the | 0 |
Window of opportunity CAMBRIDGE -- Three-year-old Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. already has seen its share of milestones. Its scientists cloned the first Heparin sugar-degrading enzyme, a breakthrough in understanding the role of complex | 0 |
Russians finish dominant #39;04 with Federation Cup victory Russia won its first Fed Cup title yesterday by edging defending champion France 3-2 when Anastasia Myskina and Vera Zvonareva beat Marion Bartoli and | 0 |
Appeals court rules against Lexmark in cartridge case NEW YORK - A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck a blow against Lexmark International Inc.'s attempt to protect its share of the lucrative | 0 |
World 100m Champion Torri Edwards Banned from Games ATHENS (Reuters) - World 100 meters champion Torri Edwards will miss the Athens Olympics after her appeal against a two-year drugs ban was dismissed | 0 |
quot;Serious shortcomings quot; seen in security at Russian nuclear plants Security at three Russian nuclear power plants has quot;serious shortcomings quot; despite steps to improve security levels, Russia #39;s deputy prosecutor general, | 0 |
Asian Stocks Rise on U.S. Tech Advances (Reuters) Reuters - Investors bought shares in Asian\exporters and electronics firms such as Fujitsu Ltd. on\Tuesday, buoyed by a favorable outlook from U.S. technology\bellwethers and | 0 |
Stationmasters Face Charges in India Crash Railway officials say a train collision in northern India that killed at least 37 people apparently was caused by a communications lapse between stations, and that | 0 |
Escape Hybrid makes its debut After waiting three long years, Bill Hammons was eager to get the keys to his new hybrid Ford Escape. And it #39;s no exaggeration to say Ford | 0 |
Ellison Has Talked About Revising PeopleSoft Bid (Reuters) Reuters - Oracle Corp. Chief\Executive Larry Ellison said on Friday that Oracle has talked\about revising its #36;21-per-share offer to buy rival PeopleSoft\Inc. , but | 0 |
Optware finds funding for holographic storage Optware Corp. has received funding that will enable it to complete development of its holographic storage technology, and is on course to release commercial samples of | 0 |
A Tribute to Spam, the Meat A trip to Spamtown USA to check out a museum celebrating the canned pork product reminds us how Spam made an impact on world cuisine long | 0 |
Failed Mars Probe Blamed on Lack of Funds (AP) AP - A failed European mission to land a probe on Mars last year was hampered by late funding from the British government | 0 |
Stocks Move Higher As Oil Prices Dip NEW YORK - Stocks moved sharply higher Friday as oil prices dipped and a pair of upgrades in the semiconductor sector boosted technology shares. Investors | 0 |
Blair admitted to Hammersmith Hospital for heart operation : World News gt; London, Oct 1 : British Prime Minister Tony Blair was today admitted to the Hammersmith Hospital in west London for | 0 |
Phelps #39; gold haul dream not so bad BEIJING, Aug.19 (Xinhuanet) -- Michael Phelps has taken his haul of gold medals at the Athens Olympics to three after winning the 200 meters | 0 |
Death Rates in Darfur Rising, WHO Says Between 6,000 and 10,000 people are dying from disease and violence each month in Sudan's Darfur region as heavy rains and a marauding militia hinder | 0 |
Toshiba, NEC plan HD DVD notebooks in 2005 TOKYO - Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. said they are backing the HD DVD format over the rival Blu-ray Disc scheme, announcing plans here | 0 |
Australia #39;s conservative government wins control of both houses of <b>...</b> Prime Minister John Howard has won control of both the upper and lower houses of parliament, clearing the way for the | 0 |
A Yukos subsidiary gets a low valuation MOSCOW The Russian government said Tuesday that it would sell part of Yukos #39;s most valuable subsidiary by the end of November as the company | 0 |
Microsoft #39;s new mice get touchy Microsoft is introducing a new line of keyboards and mice, including some with fingerprint readers that lets users scan a finger instead of having to enter | 0 |
China #39;s Jiang Zemin gives up military post BEIJING - China #39;s former president Jiang Zemin has retired as chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission, his last official post in government. | 0 |
Bush Raises Questions About CBS Documents (Reuters) Reuters - President Bush questioned\the authenticity of documents aired by CBS News that said he\received special treatment during his Vietnam-era service in\the National Guard, according | 0 |
Syrian Ally Named as Lebanon's Premier BEIRUT, Oct. 21 -- Lebanon's president appointed a staunchly pro-Syrian politician, Omar Karami, as prime minister on Thursday, asking him to form the next government in | 0 |
IM upstarts vie for interoperability Although Microsoft and IBM offer IM products for the enterprise, smaller challengers are staking out valuable territory with a commitment to interoperability. This week both Antepo and | 0 |
Apache Project Rejects Sender ID September 2, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Apache Project (apache.org) has rejected the Sender ID proposal for email user authentication because of the incompatibilities | 0 |
Stocks Soar on Energy Inventory Buildup Stocks soared Wednesday, with the Dow Jones industrials rising more than 120 points, as a large buildup in the nation #39;s energy inventories and increased consumer | 0 |
Cards DH Anderson Gets Postseason Start (AP) AP - Marlon Anderson got his first start of the postseason for the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday night, serving as the designated hitter in | 0 |
US Deserter Leaves Army Base for New Life in Japan SADO ISLAND, Japan (Reuters) - A former U.S. army sergeant who deserted to North Korea four decades ago left a U.S. military | 0 |
Israel allows Arafat to leave his compound for medical treatment Israel gave Yasser Arafat permission Monday to briefly leave his compound to receive medical treatment in the West Bank city of Ramallah, | 0 |
Celebrity Might End Up In Florida A high profile celebrity may serve her prison sentence right here in North Central Florida. Martha Stewart could be coming to the small town of Coleman, | 0 |
Cassini-Huygens discovers two new Saturnian moons The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, a joint project of the US space administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian space agency (ASI), has discovered two | 0 |
Shrugging Off Mutiny, Sharon Rejects Gaza Referendum JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli leader Ariel Sharon rejected calls from within his mutinous cabinet Wednesday for a referendum on leaving Gaza after winning parliament's support | 0 |
Federer next for Agassi SIXTH seed Andre Agassi defeated Armenia #39;s Sargis Sargsian 6-3 6-2 6-2 in the fourth round of the US Open today. Agassi advances to the quarter-finals to face | 0 |
Colombia explodes 6,800 land mines as victims look on BOGOTA -- Colombia's armed forces blew up 6,800 stockpiled land mines yesterday as President Alvaro Uribe, Queen Noor of Jordan, and dozens of | 0 |
Video: Shiite Muslim Purportedly Beheaded (AP) AP - A videotape surfaced on the Internet Tuesday showing what was said to be the confession and beheading of an Arab Shiite Muslim, presumably Iraqi, | 0 |
Mercedes A-Class Hits European Target (AP) AP - DaimlerChrysler AG Friday said it has orders for more than 50,000 of its new Mercedes A-Class models in western Europe, meaning it has already | 0 |
Aussie alive after capture in Iraq AUSTRALIAN journalist John Martinkus is lucky to be alive after spending 24 hours in the hands of Iraqi militants at the weekend. Martinkus was in Baghdad | 0 |
ACCESS Announces NetFront Mobile Content Viewer Previewing and <b>...</b> /PRNewswire/ -- ACCESS Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 4813), a global provider of mobile content delivery and Internet access technologies announced the release | 0 |
Newspaper Circulation Continues to Decline The average circulation of the nation #39;s newspapers fell in the six months ended in September, as new federal restrictions on telemarketing and a more conservative approach | 0 |
Web Media Buyouts Coming? Kinda MarketWatch is sold for \$500 million and Slate is next. Will there be a spate of other sites on the block? Probably, but the most fevered M | 0 |
Greenspan Sees Economic #39;Traction #39; (CBS/AP) Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Wednesday the economy has quot;regained some traction quot; after a late spring slowdown that was triggered by a sharp spike | 0 |
US Consulate attacked JIDDA, Saudi Arabia -- Lobbing grenades, militants invaded Jidda's heavily guarded US Consulate yesterday, attacking staffers and others in the compound until Saudi security forces stormed in. Nine people, | 0 |
EDITORIAL: IAEA cannot request access to Dr AQ Khan Pakistans decision to refuse the International Atomic Energy Agency to have direct access to Dr AQ Khan is correct on both legal and | 0 |
President Blasts Firing Notre Dame's outgoing president criticized the decision to fire Tyrone Willingham after just three seasons, saying he was surprised the coach was not given more time to try to | 0 |
Whither Microsoft? With Microsoft Corp. shareholders on the verge of collectively receiving \$32 billion in cash from the software maker's special \$3 dividend, investors are wondering what's ahead for one of Wall | 0 |
Investors back News Corp switch RUPERT Murdoch has won the battle to shift the headquarters of his giant media group News Corp from the southern Australian city of Adelaide to the US | 0 |
Bush welcoming word of debt relief and elections SANTIAGO, Chile President Bush is welcoming word that Iraq will hold elections in January -- and that a big chunk of the country #39;s | 0 |
Ex-Macy #39;s Executive to Lead JC Penney JC Penney said yesterday that Allen I. Questrom, the chief executive who has restyled the once-beleaguered chain into a sleeker and more profitable entity, would | 0 |
Homestretch for Pena Carlos Pena was all hellos, handshakes, and hugs before facing the Red Sox last night at Fenway Park. Leaning over the waist-high wall by the visitors' dugout, he greeted | 0 |
Hanjin Denies FT Report on Carlyle #39;s Takeover Bid Hanjin Group on Thursday denied a report on the progress of its talks with the US private equity fund Carlyle Group over the | 0 |
The Israeli Invasion of North Gaza On Sept. 29th Members of the militant wing of Hamas fired a Qassam rocket across the Gaza border into the Israeli town of Sederot killing two | 0 |
Oil prices rise, but stay below \$50 a barrel Crude-oil prices rebounded Friday but remained below \$50 a barrel after declining 4 percent in the last week due to rising US supplies | 0 |
Week of September 11th, 2004 - Part 2 Why to watch: It seems like two months, not two weeks, since we last saw USC get by Virginia Tech and while the Trojans | 0 |
Dollar Hits New Low; Gold Heads for #36;455 (Reuters) Reuters - The dollar hit record lows against\the euro Friday and a 4-1/2-year trough versus the yen\following a report China had cut its | 0 |
Hamilton Positive? By James Startt, European Correspondent; Joe Lindsey, Contributing Writer. Olympic gold medallist Tyler Hamilton has tested positive for blood doping, according to reports first issued by the Spanish news agency | 0 |
SES Astra Welcomes NTL to Client List BETZDORF, Luxembourg - (BUSINESS WIRE) -ept. 15, 2004 - UK and Europes foremost direct-to-home (DTH) satellite company, SES ASTRA, an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext:SESG) (FWB:SESG)is | 0 |
Playwright Created a Psychiatrist by Plagiarizing One, Accusers Say A criminal psychiatrist and a writer for The New Yorker have accused playwright Bryony Lavery of plagiarizing their work in her play "Frozen." | 0 |
Yukos Main Subsidiary to Be Sold on December 19 The Russian Federal Property Fund announced on Friday, November 19, that the auction to sell the shares of Yuganskneftegaz, the main production subsidiary | 0 |
Iraq War Tale Wins at Spanish Film Fest MADRID, Spain - A film about Iraqi villagers desperate for a satellite dish as they await the U.S. invasion won the top prize Saturday | 0 |
Update 5: EU Expands Probe Into Intel Favortism The European Union #39;s head office Wednesday expanded its probe into whether EU governments are illegally requiring that the computers they buy must contain | 0 |
Advo Names Harding CEO NEW YORK (Reuters) - Advo Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=AD.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">AD.N</A>, which publishes shopping ad circulars and provides other direct-mail marketing services, on Monday said its board of directors had | 0 |
Delta flies toward clouds of Chapter 11 Delta Air Lines on Tuesday slashed pay for most workers, and pilots agreed to contract changes that should prevent a wave of pilot retirements from | 0 |
Frenchman shot, killed in Saudi Arabia A French technician who worked on Saudi naval contracts was shot and killed early Sunday in western Saudi Arabia in what his company said may have | 0 |
Search for Thai Tsunami Dead Narrows to Hard Hit Areas (Reuters) Reuters - Teams searching for bodies in\tsunami-devastated Thailand zeroed in on the hardest hit areas\on Monday, as Thai and Japanese navy | 0 |
Finley moving down the freeway The Angels have reached agreement on a two-year contract with former Dodgers outfielder Steve Finley, who provides a more cost-efficient, shorter-term solution to their gap in center | 0 |
Genesis Crash Blamed on Installation Error NASA says the space capsule, built by Lockheed Martin, went down in the Utah desert because a crucial switch was put on backward. By John Johnson. | 0 |
Wireless Business Helps Lucent Profit (Reuters) Reuters - Lucent Technologies Inc. , among\the world's largest makers of telecommunications equipment, on\Wednesday said quarterly earnings rose, helped by improvement\in its wireless networks business, which | 0 |
Epson announces R-D1 availability Epson has announced that the world #39;s first digital rangefinder camera, the R-D1 is to begin shipping in the US on November 1 and is expected to cost | 0 |
Kerry Slams 'Wrong War in the Wrong Place' WASHINGTON - Democrat John Kerry accused President Bush on Monday of sending U.S. troops to the "wrong war in the wrong place at the | 0 |
Philippine Flood Toll Hits 29, Survivors Hunt Rats Philippine rescue teams evacuated thousands of people from the worst flooding in the central Luzon region since the 1970s as hungry victims hunted rats | 0 |
Unit Refused Duty in Iraq, Military Says WASHINGTON - The Army is investigating up to 19 members of a supply platoon in Iraq who refused to go on a convoy mission, the | 0 |
First direct flight from US to Vietnam since 1975 is on its way _ For the first time since 1975, a US passenger jet is flying from the US directly to Vietnam. | 0 |
Second Sunni Cleric Gunned Down in Iraq BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a Sunni Muslim cleric in the city of Miqdadiya Tuesday, the second such killing in Iraq in as many | 0 |
Top Hamas Militant Killed in Israeli Missile Strike GAZA (Reuters) - A senior leader of Hamas's military wing was killed in an Israeli missile strike on his car in the Gaza Strip, | 0 |
Tiger #39;s father has a relapse Tiger Woods has more than golf on his mind as he prepares for the Deutsche Bank Championship near Boston: His father, Earl, has had a relapse | 0 |
Has the mystery of the Holy Grail been solved? For centuries the whereabouts of the Holy Grail, supposing it exists at all, has exercised the minds of scholars and tested the endurance | 0 |
Dell CEO says they are considering AMD I have decided to pay attention to this subject one last time, at least until Dell finally releases either desktop PCs or servers equipped with | 0 |
In Opener, Hoyas Are Shut Down The new coach of the Georgetown men #39;s basketball team was greeted with chants of quot;JT3! quot; as he stepped onto the MCI Center court before | 0 |
Israel Charges Iran Replaces Saddam as Terror Exporter UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel charged on Thursday that Iran had replaced Saddam Hussein as the world's primary exporter of "terror, hate and instability." | 0 |
CEOs See More Hiring, Capital Spending A quarterly survey of U.S. chief\executives showed they plan to increase hiring and capital\spending, despite recent soft economic data, concerns about\sluggish job growth and high energy | 0 |
Young Given Lifetime Ban for Second Offense COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (Reuters) - World 400 meters champion Jerome Young has been given a lifetime ban from athletics for a second doping offense, the | 0 |
Three share lead in South Carolina North Augusta, SC (Sports Network) - Grace Park, Kim Saiki and Silvia Cavalleri each posted rounds of six-under-par 66 on Thursday to share the first-round lead | 0 |
Delegates, Protesters Descend on New York NEW YORK - Abortion-rights protesters and the first Republican delegates descended on President Bush's heavily fortified convention city Saturday as campaign officials said their boss would | 0 |
A tough playoff draw for UNH The University of New Hampshire football team is going dancing -- the Wildcats will be playing in the NCAA Division 1-AA playoffs for the first time | 0 |
Patriots #39; careful decision to sign RB Dillon has already paid off FOXBORO, Mass. -- The Patriots knew a day like this would come. The passing game would be taken away, almost | 0 |
7 hostages released in Iraq; attackers hit Chalabi motorcade BAGHDAD, Iraq - A militant group in Iraq on Wednesday released seven foreign truck drivers they had held hostage for six weeks after | 0 |
Giuliani Said Apologized to Bush Over Kerik (AP) AP - Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, at a preplanned dinner with President Bush, offered apologies for the abortive nomination of close associate | 0 |
Stocks Fall as Oil Hits High SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Exporters led a fall in Asian shares on Monday as oil prices set new highs near \$47 and data showing the U.S. trade | 0 |
Yen Keeps Gains, Capped by Murky Outlook TOKYO (Reuters) - The yen kept most gains against the dollar on Thursday after rallying to a four-week peak, but investors saw no reason to | 0 |
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